Desire: Selected Poems, 1963-1987

Literature & Fiction

Bromige, David

Poetry

Black Sparrow Press

Desire: Selected Poems 1963-1987

Black Sparrow Pr

Is the automobile the new dog? David Bromige's Thurberesque title suggests that it is. In this collection of humorous stories, prose poems, and casual essays, Bromige gives us modern life as it was lived in by a romantically complicated Northern California male from the 1950s through the 1980s - and as it was seen from behind the wheel of a T-Bird, a Volkswagen Beetle, and a BMW.Bromige's stories capture the concentrated essence and the startling insight of poetry in everyday language. He writes about grad students striving and slackers growing slacker; about young love flowering and old marriages foundering; about poets and therapists and, quite often, about Sven, a poor immigrant lad whose great ambition is to own a Cadillac but who is endearingly, tearfully attached to his aging '75 Chevy Nova. A charming memento of a bygone era, this book will remind many people of a certain age about what they once thought they needed, and about how that neediness felt.

Men, Women, and Vehicles: Prose Works

Men, Women and Vehicles: Prose Works

Men Women and Vehicles: Prose Works

Poetry. The latest in over 30 published works by David Bromige, AS IN T AS IN TETHER plays with the alphabet and much more in 74 pages of poetry. In an interview with Electronic Poetry Review earlier this year Bromige ruminated on his chosen title: "So I was born, actually, between a tennis club and a taxi. I wonder if that's why I'm writing AS IN T AS IN TETHER. My God, I never thought of that." Bromige has won multiple awards from the NEA and is the 2002-2003 Poet Laureate of Sonoma County. "Z as in closure/ Zed as in disagreeable/ Y as in pudendum/ X as in forbidden/ W as in divided/ V as in fingers/ U as in me." from "T as in Tether."

As in T As in Tether

Chax Press

Born of Love, Obsession and Some Degree of Madness The Story of Martin Miller's Gin

The Reformed Spirits Company

<p>Drawn from 22 books of poetry published by David Bromige in his lifetime, if wants to be the same as is chronicles the career of one of contemporary poetry's most distinctive writers. Born in London, England, in 1933, raised in Canada, and a resident for most of his adult life of California, David Bromige is just as difficult to pin down in terms of his aesthetics. As a student at the University of BC in the early 1960s, Bromige met writers like Fred Wah, George Bowering, and Jamie Reid, who pointed him towards the American postmodernists, and eventually, to a scholarship to UC Berkeley. There, he became immersed in the Bay Area's explosively creative poetry scene, and came to be associated with many of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets. Bromige's own work, however, holds wide appeal and from the start resisted any sort of classification, winning praise across the literary critical spectrum. His publishers included Black Sparrow Press (Bukowski's publisher), Sun &amp; Moon, Brick, and The Figures, and he won acclaim from the likes of Robert Hass, the Poetry Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He died in Sebastopol, California, in 2009. if wants to be the same as is presents a life's work that is, In the words of Bob Perelman, "beautiful, deeply amusing, continually surprising."</p>

if wants to be the same as is: The Essential David Bromige

New Star Books

Poetry. "A CAST OF TENS maps the reversals in the human mind - in words, sequences, embedded myths and unshakable stories. The effect is breathtaking, with stark topography and dangerous structure" -Susan Smith Nash.

A Cast of Tens

Avec Books

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